Doug Miller wrote:
Think this through a little farther. You don't have one wire carrying 240V as
you illustrated. You have two: L1 and L2.

Finish your drawing -- show where you're going to connect the L1 and L2 leads
to that switch.

Sigh:

/
L1 --- _________/ ___________
| / |
|__/ __|
240 LOAD

L2 --- _________________________